Comment on Players Have Too Many Options to Spend $80 on a Video Game

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  • Oxygen not Included

  • Caves of Qud

  Not run through Steam, so no Steam stats (though available on Steam) but I’m sure that they’re way up there:

  • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

  • Dwarf Fortress

  • Dungeon Crawl: Stone Soup, though that’s going back a few years.

  Some others with a fair bit of playtime:

  • Steel Division II (really primarily a multiplayer game, but I only play single-player)

  • Elite: Dangerous. Though I don’t remember how I accumulated that many hours. Wasn’t super-impressed with the game, and would have sworn that I’d have more time in X3 (though maybe that gets split across the DLC or something).

  • Stellaris

  • Noita

  • Nova Drift

  • Starfield

  • Rule the Waves 3

  • Carrier Command 2 (Primarily intended to be played multiplayer, but I play single-player)

  • Kerbal Space Program

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  • zolar@lemmy.ml ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    That is a fine collection of games there! :)

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  • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Lots of love for Starbound, that game is underrated af.

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• trinsec@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  RimWorld ...

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• Yermaw@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Minecraft, slay the spire, civilisation, atomicrops.

  Balatro could have been a contender but I lost interest suddenly and unexpectedly.

  Tetris spoiler

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• NeuronautML@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Stellaris, civ v, oxygen not included, city skylines, x4, workers and resources: soviet republic, kerbal space program.

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  • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To be fair, while paradox games like Stellaris or the crusader kings games you mentioned, certainly have a lot of replayability (I don’t really care much for CK myself but have over 1000 hours on both Stellaris and EU4), they’re not great examples for where cheaper games by smaller companies offer more than expensive ones from bigger ones. Partly because paradox is fairly sizable and well known these days, but mostly because those games are quite expensive, just split into numerous expansions that come out over time. One can opt out of getting them, sure, but they’re where a lot of the different options that bring the replayability come from.

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    • NeuronautML@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’m right there with you. I absolutely hate Paradox’s DLC policy and I’m guessing they lose a ton of paying clients the moment they hit the store page and get a 200-500€ price tag for the full experience, or even over 100€ for just the best hits for a really old game. I know they have mouths to feed, but i really don’t like the way they do it and how they abuse their position of niche games nobody else makes. Nevertheless, even though you may choose not to purchase their expansions, you still have extremely healthy modding communities to carry you over.

      Still, i wasn’t coming so much from the angle that it’s a smaller company providing better value than larger companies, rather showing to the OP that there are non multiplayer games that easily can provide over 500 hours of entertainment.

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• teft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Baldur’s Gate 3, Cyberpunk, Kingdom Come Deliverance, Witcher 3, Fallout

  Really any RPG you can easily get 1000 hours of play.

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• dom@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Factorio, stardew, civ vi are my top 3.

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• poleslav@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well I’m not them, but for me: KSP1: 1800.8 hours. Current cost $40 = $0.02 an hour DCS: 1294.7 hours. Money spent eh $300 = $0.23 an hour Witcher 3: 1131.5 hours. Current cost: $40 = $0.03 an hour. Civ vi: 589.9 hours. Current cost: $60 = $0.10 an hour Stardew valley: 579.3 hours. current cost $15 = $0.026 an hour Fall out new Vegas: 543.6 hours. Current cost: $10 = $0.0018 an hour

  Now if we add in the $2000 worth of peripherals I have to play dcs it’s cost balloons quite a bit but, it’s not terribly difficult to get high playtimes in cheap games. I would also say the cost per hour for me is double or triple what it actually is, as these are the current prices, and besides dcs I buy everything only on sale lol.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well I’m not them, but for me: KSP1: 1800.8 hours. Current cost $40 = $0.02 an hour

    My electricity costs to run the game are higher than the cost of the game itself at that point.

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• echutaaa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Factorio, eu4, stellaris, satisfactory, slay the spire, etc

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  For indie and cheaper stuff specifically? The Binding of Isaac is over 1k hours between my two copies. Rimworld, Factorio, and Terraria are all close to 500h as well. If Minecraft counts as one for you, this is an outlier with roughly 4k hours since 2011.

  Otherwise, I am quite into MMOs and story-rich singleplayer RPGs, so there’s a handful of them with well over several thousands of hours played too.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    and Terraria are all close to 500h as well.

    If you like Terraria, have you tried Starbound?

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    • dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes. I didn’t like it nearly as much, if at all. I’ve heard mods make that game infinitely more enjoyable though, so maybe i’ll try it again some day

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• DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  FTL for me

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Peglin for me. Cheaper world games I have an insane amount of hours in.

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• icecreamtaco@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  XIV, but I never engage with other players aside from solo queue for dungeons etc

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• msage@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Terraria is the easiest one.

  I wish I had more time to play other single player time sinks like Dwarf Fortress, or even BeamNG.drive.

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